Referendum race will go down to the wire with polls putting Remain narrowly ahead

By ROBERT FISK

23rd June 2016, 7:59 pm

Updated: 24th June 2016, 8:55 am

BORIS Johnson could not resist one last push for the EU referendum at his daughter’s university graduation today.

While waiting to watch his eldest child Lara Johnson-Wheeler graduate he unfurled a “last chance to vote” poster at the ceremony, at St Andrews in Scotland.

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Boris Johnson speaks to family members after attending his daughter Lara's graduation in St Andrews, Scotland

Campaigning on the referendum day is against strict voting regulations but he might get away with it.

This is because, one witness said, he was not telling people to vote for a particular side.

The witness told Daily Record: “It was all done very much tongue in cheek. Both posters got a huge cheer and round of applause.

“Boris wasn’t telling people who to vote for, just for them to get out there and make the effort.”

The former mayor of London was in St Andrews with his QC wife to watch as Lara, 22, was awarded a degree in Latin and Comparative Literature from the town’s university.

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Boris Johnson got up close and personal on the EU referendum campaign trail

He arrived last night after a mammoth day on the campaign trail which started with him kissing fish at Billingsgate Market with Joey Essex’s uncle and ended with him enjoying a well-earned pint in a pub near Darlington.

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